PHARMACOGNOSTIC STUDIES OF Sebastiania Chamaelea Muell. Arg

Objective:For the past one decade herbal drugs have been played an important role in the pharmacognostic validation to prove their therapeutic efficiencies. Pharmaceutical industries are interested in the formulations of the drug designing and in the collection of the crude drugs. Hence every herbal drug has to be analyzed pharmacognostically for their authentication and by which adulteration and the purity of the drug may be checked properly. Herbal medicine Sebastiania chamaelea (Euphorbiaceae) is very much important in various drug formulations due to the presence of bioactive constituents like Alkaloids, tannins, lignins, phenols, flavonoids, terpenoids and glycosides by which showing effective antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, antidiarrhoeal, antidiabetic, anthelmintic and also proved no toxic on wistar albino rats. Hence the crude drug S.chamaelea has to be evaluated pharmacognostically for future design of drugs. Methods: Various parts like leaves, stem, root and fruits...